504. What do you want to be a Clever Person or a Wise Individual?

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Human Mind works from two different angles one which is focused on the sophisticated skills for survival and the other is the capacity to distinguish between to do and not to do. The former is cleverness while the later is wisdom. Cleverness has its base in “Medha Shakti” (intelligence) and enables one to quickly grasp the content of the subject he studies and retains the matter in his memory without any lapse to use it at appropriate times for his benefit. The current generation adore this angle to survive in this world which is hovering with the concept of Global Village, Capitalism, and Avarice. Wisdom has its base in “Dhi Shakti” (intellect) and enables one to be selfless and retain his true nature and relating to others in a sincere and straight forward way.    

There is a vast difference in living with a clever mind and wisdom. Cleverness encourages self-centered thought and is for immediate future, while wisdom induces the thought that everything is interconnected and stays forever. While leading a life of a clever person one has to take shelter in white lie and manipulation, while the wise always speaks truth and will let others to correct him if he finds his decisions were wrong.    
 
If being wise is more conducive than being clever, why is it that many wants to a clever and not wise??

A Wise person keeps away from what he thinks is illegal even if it is of benefit to him while a clever person looks for loopholes if any, to venture and get away. It is very unfortunate that the modern society appreciates a clever person but ridicules a wise individual. The people with accumulated possessions from their clever stance are glorified while the honest is castigated. A bureaucrat who has his house raided by the income tax sleuths is looked at as a hero in this society while a war veteran is disrespected. Civilized society does not want wisdom, it is happy with the short-term profits and gains that cleverness is providing. 

Even our education system does not want the young students to be wise it want them to be clever. The schools cannot teach the students how to apply wisdom with whatever educational knowledge they have, because wisdom cannot be taught by clever people. It can only be guided by wise individuals who admit they cannot teach. The young students have to be told that what is appreciated as cleverness today may not be so tomorrow but wisdom is always the same forever and is timeless. Wisdom is an insight into life and cleverness is the knowledge got from a source. Cleverness can serve us with an incredible stupendous meal once in a while, but wisdom guarantees staple food every time when one is hungry.
 

As one grows he tends to transmute from being clever and unwise to become wise and not clever. Why is this change in him? Some have a feeling that they were wise when they were young. But if they look back at the trials and tribulations of their life they understand that their cleverness which they presumed to be wisdom had in fact arrested their creativity and hindered their spontaneous behaviour. Wisdom has its route in the creative experience it can come while one is walking in a garden, or while watching the dew drops on the freshly sprouted leaf, or while writing a thought and posting it in a blog.
 

Wisdom can sometimes be mistaken for cowardice. A wise person will prefer to be a coward and let the clever person feel high of his heroic. Wisdom will hardly ever fight with cleverness even if it mocks at it as it is aware of the true Self. Cleverness feeds the mind with comforts and becomes fanatical with it. Wisdom nourishes the soul and is not attached to that nourishment. It lets it pass to others who are eager to receive it.
 

Being Wise is more worth than being just Clever …….. Isn't it?????